Nirvana's PLUS 2D suite enhances BHEL outsourcing
efficiency

Mumbai, India - 21st April 2009 - One of the initiatives introduced to improve the process of outsourcing components by BHEL,
India is based on Nirvana Technologies PLUS 2D Suite.
This has resulted in:

Reduced planning and approval times
for vendors

Savings in material used in making
the components

Long-term benefit due to lower
inventory carrying costs.

These measures have been implemented by BHEL at High Pressure Boiler Plant, Tiruchirapalli, India and Boiler Auxilliary Plant, Ranipet, India. Similar initiatives will be taken up
by the plant at Hyderabad soon.

The PLUS 2D suite comprises of PLUS 2D Sheet Metal Nesting and Optimization software for plates and PLUS 1D Bar Nesting software for pipes and structurals. Nirvana has implemented a special “Large Parts with Joints” module to address the complex requirements of BHEL for optimized splicing of parts larger than available stock for both Plates as well as structurals. This alone has resulted in reduction of the planning and approval time from days to minutes.

PLUS 2D Sheet Metal Nesting and Optimization software is a state of the art nesting software for generating optimized layouts and reducing scrap generated by two dimensional rectangular and non-rectangular cutting (Guillotine cutting or shearing processes).

Nirvana Technologies

BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited)

Nirvana Technologies is an India
based company providing nesting software for sheet metal
fabrication, glass cutting, sheet layout, woodworking industries and
offering custom software development services in CAD/CAM. It
is a registered software exporter under STPI having expertise in
engineering optimization, complex geometry algorithms,
and applications embedded into CAD systems.

BHEL is the largest engineering
and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related
infrastructure sector. It ushered in the indigenous Heavy Electrical
Equipment industry in India. It manufactures over 180 products
under 30 major product groups and caters to core sectors of the
Economy like Power Generation & Transmission, Industry,
Telecommunication, Renewable Energy, etc.